“There is this particular labor process model [in the university] that’s being exported, that’s being generalized in so-called creative industries and other places, and which is deployed expertly against study.”

I noticed this at SF State -- all the students doing projects -- and the kind of proj... ...more

i feel like i had placed my self under advisement to read this book right away for about a year before i actually did. maybe it was two years. i should be ashamed of myself. i had the digital download but this is the kind of book you have to feel in the world with the paper and i lucked upon a co... ...more

A few lines from The Undercommons:


Critique lets us know that politics is radioactive, but politics is the radiation of critique.


We run looking for a weapon and keep running looking to drop it.


What are the politics of being ready to die and what have they to do with the scandal of enjoyment?


Can't... ...more

"Instead our fantasies must come from what Moten and Harney citing Frank B. Wilderson III call 'the hold': 'And so it is we remain in the hold, in the break, as if entering again and again the broken world, to trace the visionary company and join it.' The hold here is the hold in the slave ship b... ...more

This is one of the most powerful books I've read in a long time. It spoke to me. I felt invited into their collaborative project; I felt as if I am already a part of something I did not know I was doing. Their call is towards something that is only faintly sketched, not quite visible yet, in fact... ...more

This is an object lesson in everything that's wrong with theory. Harney and Moten's ideas might be great, but nobody will ever know because they're buried under a landslide of critical jargon and tautological bullshit. If I never have to read anything this willfully impenetrable ever again it wil... ...more

wanna think abt how moten's call to disorder suggests a more radical project/relation to each other than what scot nakagawa uses harmony to describe here https://www.racefiles.com/2015/08/21/... ...more

Incredible... opaque.... this book opens the door to reassessment of the our world in every sense, the social with the material, the performative and the authoritative, the non individualised... I feel so strongly for this book I cannot express myself. To read again and again ...more

It's a difficult text. In part, it's difficult because of the theoretical and philosophical language that sometimes goes undefined. That said, it's also difficult because it proposes new ways at looking at our relationship to the university, capitalism, and planning vs. policy. ...more

tbh though parts of it are borderline unreadable ...more